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  Siberian Stonechat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Siberian Stonechat or Asian Stonechat (Saxicola maura) is a member of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
In the past it was usually classified as a race of the Common Stonechat, Saxicola torquata maura, but recent genetic evidence strongly supports its status as a full species, Saxicola maura distinct from the African Stonechat (Saxicola torquata sensu stricto) and the European Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola).
It resembles the closely related European Stonechat, but is typically paler, with a white rump and whiter underparts with less orange on the breast, and with distinctly longer primary feathers in the wing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siberian_Stonechat   (353 words)

  
 British Garden Birds - Stonechat
The Stonechat is similar to the Whinchat, but is generally darker in appearance and looks less slender.
Stonechats are primarily insectivorous, feeding on caterpillars, moths, ants, spiders and flies, though they will also take worms and snails, and feed on seeds and berries in the autumn and winter.
The Stonechat is on the Amber List of Species of Conservation Concern owing to declines in the populations in Britain and Europe.
www.garden-birds.co.uk /birds/stonechat.htm   (360 words)

  
 Stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Stonechat Saxicola torquata is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae.
Stonechats breeds in open rough gorse, tussocks or heather.
Stonechat is similar in size to the European Robin.
www.ukpedia.com /s/stonechat.html   (209 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: African Stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The African Stonechat (Saxicola torquata) is a member of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
In the past it was usually treated in a far wider sense, as the Common Stonechat (Saxicola torquata sensu lato), but recent genetic evidence strongly supports the status as full species for the European Stonechat (S.
Binomial name Saxicola rubicola (Linnaeus, 1766) The European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, family Muscicapidae.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/African-Stonechat   (516 words)

  
 Falstaff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This vehicle comprised a Stonechat I motor, fitted with the four-fin assembly designed to stabilise the Hyperion HRV (4.42 m span), and a payload section with a simple concrete ballasted (1 ton) conical nosecone.
The Hyperion was intended to consist of a ‘Short Burn’ Stonechat 1st stage, with either a Rook or Raven 2nd stage and a potential Cuckoo 3rd stage.
Skylark 8 would have been a 2-stage rocket with a Stonechat II 1st stage and Waxwing motor, inherited from the Black Arrow launcher, as a 2nd stage.
www.univ-perp.fr /fuseurop/falsta_e.htm   (1147 words)

  
 The sound of the stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Stonechats can be noisy, and if a group, say a family of them, are together they are invariably noisy.
Stonechats which breed further north usually have to move south in the winter.
The experts tell us that the stonechat is decreasing in numbers, but if this summer is anything to go by there are plenty of stonechats around.
www.lisburn.com /history/country_matters/the_sound_of_the_stonechat.htm   (810 words)

  
 2274 Beswick Stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This is a Beswick Stonechat which is model 2274.
It measures 3 " or 7.5cm tall and it is in MINT condition.
This model was issued between 1969 to 1997.
www.scorpion.com.au /prod2520.htm   (30 words)

  
 Falstaff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This motor (Stonechat Mk2) was 5.3 m long and 92 cm in diameter and weighed 5090 kg with 4340 kg of propellant.
Note : Initially, Stonechat had to be the booster of a 2-stage Hypersonic Research Vehicle (HRV) named Hyperion.
This Stonechat Mk1 version was tested on a single-stage vehicle on October 1st, 1969 from Woomera.
www.sat-net.com /serra/falsta_e.htm   (173 words)

  
 Western Stonechat - Norwegian Cyberbirding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This female Stonechat was found at Fedje on the 4th.
This is the fourth record on the island, and the first autumn record ever.
There were only 29 records of Stonechats in Hordaland county prior to this one.
cyberbirding.uib.no /photo/s_torquata_01.php   (56 words)

  
 stonechat - Definition of stonechat - stonechat in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The tail is fl at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side.
Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat.
www.dictionarywords.net /find/word/stonechat   (240 words)

  
 Siberian Stonechat - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Siberian Stonechat Saxicola (torquata) maura is a member of the Thrush family Turdidae.
It is usaully classified as a race of Stonechat, Saxicola torquata, but may well be a full species, Saxicola maura.
Siberian Stonechat is similar in size to the European Robin.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Siberian_Stonechat   (170 words)

  
 Stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Although not particularly common, Stonechats are easily relocated once spotted, as they tend to stay within a well defined territory for most of the time.
The male and female birds are not usually far apart as they flit from one prominent perch to another making frequent harsh scratchy calls.
For digiscoping, Stonechats are close to the ideal subjects.
homepage.ntlworld.com /andy.holt/digiscope/stonechat/rs.htm   (131 words)

  
 Saxicola torquata - Common stonechat
Saxicola torquata - Stonechat -- Saxicola torquata - Stonechat.
Stonechat (Saxicola torquata) Photo -- Breeding Male, Siberian Form, Hokkaido, Japan June, 1998, ©Mike Danzenbaker.
Saxicola torquata -- Saxicola torquata Common Stonechat Français.
www.wildmadagascar.org /wildlife/species/birds/Saxicola_torquata.html   (149 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The genus Saxicola, the stonechats or chats, is a genus of 14 species of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World.
They are insectivores of open scrubland and grassland with scattered small shrubs.
Siberian Stonechat or Asian Stonechat, Saxicola maura (previously S.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stonechat   (145 words)

  
 Birds in Lincolnshire - stonechat
Stonechat (male) at Worlaby Carrs on sunflowers in game strip, 7th December 2003 © Graham Catley 2003
Stonechat, male - a spring passage bird at Barton Pits March 2nd 2003, where so far 5 birds have between 2nd-8th March 2003 © Graham Catley 2003
Stonechat, male Barton Pits March 2nd 2003 © Graham Catley 2003
www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk /rare_birds/stonechat.htm   (191 words)

  
 Stonechat Europeo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
El rubicola europeo de Stonechat Saxicola es un pájaro pequeño del passerine que fue clasificado antes como miembro de la familia Turdidae del tordo pero ahora se considera más generalmente para ser un flycatcher de viejo mundo, familia Muscicapidae.
Casta europea de Stonechats en heathland, dunas costeras y prado áspero con los arbustos y la zarza pequeños dispersados, gorse abierto, tussocks o brezo.
El Stonechat europeo es algo más pequeño que el robin europeo.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/st/Stonechat%20Europeo.htm   (414 words)

  
 Articles - European Stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, family Muscicapidae.
European Stonechats breed in heathland, coastal dunes and rough grassland with scattered small shrubs and bramble, open gorse, tussocks or heather.
The European Stonechat is somewhat smaller than the European Robin.
lastring.com /articles/European_Stonechat?mySession=650691360d3507d9...   (387 words)

  
 Saxicola torquata
Male Stonechats, especially in spring are unmistakable, with their tricoloured plumage: fl heads, orange breasts and big white blobs on the sides of the neck.
The same pattern can just about be seen on females and juveniles but they are brown not fl on the head and upperparts and the orange and white areas are much less pronounced.
Siberian Stonechats (of the race S.t.maura) are annual vagrants, mainly in the autumn on the east coast.
www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Saxicola_torquata.htm   (255 words)

  
 Stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Stonechat was common more or less throughout Britain and Ireland a century ago with slight declines recorded from a few areas, mainly in the Home Counties.
Stonechats do not move very far in winter and their populations may be hit very hard by winter cold.
Where their breeding habitat becomes dispersed the birds are likely to diminish further and this has clearly happened.
www.birdcare.com /birdon/sonb/stonechat.html   (169 words)

  
 Stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This pair of Stonechats were present in an area of planted scrubs and the fields by the side of the Jubilee River, Taplow.
A pair had been reported the previous week about a half a mile downstream and are presumably the same pair.
It was confirmed as NOT being of the Siberian race.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /bucksbirds/mysite/Pictures/stonecha.htm   (89 words)

  
 Irish Birds -- Stonechat.- Pupils Work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
You will often see it flicking its wings and tail and calling with short 'chipping' notes and sounds like a few small stones shaken together in your fist.
That is why it is called a stonechat because of the sound it makes.
In summer the male is brightly coloured with its orange breast, fl head and white front.
homepage.eircom.net /~edrice/birds/stonechat.htm   (159 words)

  
 Stonechat - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Males have striking fl heads with white around the side of their neck, orange-red breasts and a mottled brown back.
Stonechats nest on the ground (occasionally higher) in vegetation or under gorse bushes on lowland heaths, gorse rich coastal sites or new conifer plantations.
Male stonechat perched on bramble - Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com, Ref: 2835144_00180_002)
www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/s/stonechat/index.asp   (235 words)

  
 Common Stonechat, Saxicola torquata
In Kenya the common race is S. t.
axillaris and is the typical "African Stonechat" pictured above.
Unlike the European races the orange colour on the underside is confined to a small breast patch (similar to the Siberian Stonechat).
www.kenyabirds.org.uk /stonechat.htm   (118 words)

  
 Falstaff
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that man set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
Some Fallstaff or Stonechat launches may have used a substantially larger motor.
The Stonechat motor was in a specially built container which completely filled the C-130 freight hold.
www.astronautix.com /lvs/falstaff.htm   (421 words)

  
 Stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
or Common Stonechat (H) (Saxicola axillaris (c) or Saxicola torquata)
A small bird (about 14 cm), found in Africa, Madagascar, Asia and Europe.
It is a altitudinal migrant, inhabiting a wide range of habitats, including open grassland.
www.sabirdstamps.com /Individual%20Birds/R596.htm   (52 words)

  
 Stonechat Photo | TrekNature
The Stonechat is a very small bird wintering in Israel.
Unfortunately we dont see the eye of the Stonechat but perhaps it is my screen.
Hi Ido, and welcome here on TN I am the one who was asleep the last couple of weeks and missed a lot.
www.treknature.com /gallery/photo4751.htm   (469 words)

  
 Stonechat Cottage - Polzeath - Wadebridge
Stonechat Cottage offers 1 double, 1 twin, bathroom, lounge/dining/kitchen.
Lowest prices up to £99/week are based on 2 people sharing.
Also nearby is golf and walking and sailing and fishing and all sorts and and a wealth of good quality attractions and historic houses and gardens.The Cottage is set in a lane just off Polzeath beach and leading to the medieval Shilla Mill.
www.cornwall-stay.com /Stonechat_Cottage-info.htm   (179 words)

  
 Stonechat copyright photograph by David Lingard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mallorca is a wonderful place for watching birds, especially in the Spring.
Driving our rental car along a quiet track we stopped to watch some wetland birds and then became aware of a Stonechat making that typical scratching noise at us.
I looked out and realised that we were close to a nest so took some photographs and drove off to leave the birds in peace.
www.lipu-uk.org /Photos45.htm   (66 words)

  
 Livid's Lividict - stonechat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Note: The name is sometimes applied to various species of {Saxicola}, {Pratincola}, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India ({Saxicola picata}).
1 definition found From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]: stonechat n : common European chat with fl plumage and a reddish-brown breast [syn: {Saxicola torquata}]
3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stonechat \Stone"chat`\, n.
www.lividict.org /lookup/stonechat.html   (641 words)

  
 Re: Whitethroat pic (now Stonechat
You're very fortunate to have so much space over there to play with and it's good to hear that you're catering for the wildlife.
The Gorse is smelling fine over here....that lovely strong coconut smell and ideal for photogenic shots with birds sitting on it (see Stonechat pic
Exceptional shot of the Oak Apples, can't imagine that they've ever been captured better.
www.dp-now.com /cgi-bin/forum/forum.pl/noframes/read/1723   (235 words)

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